Bellamy’s Construction Can’t Park

A few months ago a house up the street caught fire. There have been construction contractors working on it off and on ever since. For the last few days, I’ve noticed one of them parking particularly badly. Their truck has been parked on the wrong side of the street, with the bed sticking out way farther into the intersection than it ought to. Today, it was so oustanding I had to take photos:

That’s Bellamy’s Construction of Kenmore, WA, not even making an effort to park legally. There’s plenty of parking right across the street. Why is he parked out in the middle of the intersection?

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Josh: wow, that’s either complete arrogance, or complete obliviousness. Either way, that’s a new low in parking. And to think, I used to think people were being jerks for parking neatly in front of my garage, which has a large red NO PARKING sign on it.

Yes, I have called the rozzers on those oblivious parkers, which once collected a pair(!) of cruisers, lights flashing, explaining to a woman why it was impolite and illegal to park in someone else’s driveway, and how would she like it if we came and blocked access to her driveway? (Musta been a slow night at the north precinct.)

on my block, the developer just put up those official looking No Parking A-frame signs on both his lot and the neighboring lot for weekdays for three months. sure doesn’t seem legal to do that. I always wondered why the neighbor didn’t remove them.

wow i cant believe such a fuss was made about my truck if i remember i was only there 5 minutes .The angle of the photo makes this look soo much worse than it was by no means did i block or create a traffic issue this subburb street see’s mabey a car an hour anyway ran across this cross referencing my co. name. funny! some people have way too much time on there hands later aaron

Dude. There is no angle from which I could have taken a photo of that parking job that wouldn’t have made it look as bad as that, except possibly from underneath the truck, pointing up. You were parked well into the intersection. Here’s what it would have looked like from above:

Anyone heading west and trying to turn north would have had to do so by driving in the wrong lane, and they would have been making the turn effectively blind. It was a bad parking job, even if you were only there for five minutes. And there was plenty of parking 25 feet away.

All I’m saying is, if you can’t be bothered to take 10 extra seconds to park legally while at a job site, how much care are you taking on the job itself? You may do great work, but by carelessly parking an advertisement for your business in the middle of an intersection, you’ve left me with a negative impression of you and your work, and made me much less likely to consider your company when I need construction done (and I will, soon). It’s not good advertising.